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My Name Forever 10 Y’hó I vh 29. When found at the beginning of someone's name, the Name is pronounced Y’hó I vh as in Y’hónatan i ,b I vh (Jonathan) in 1 Samuel 14:6 & 8. Jonathan means, “vuvh Has Given.” When it appears in the middle of a man's name the pronunciation is the same - Y’hó I vh as in El’Y’hóeinai hbhg I vh k t (Elioenai). Elioenai means, “My Eyes Are Toward vuvh.” We find this name in 1 Chronicles 26:3. As already mentioned, and as is common in modern Hebrew, the Hei v in Biblical Hebrew often vanishes. So it is that we find Y’hó I vh often shortened to Yó Ih, Thus Y’hónatan i ,b I vh becomes Yónatan i ,b Ih in 1 Samuel 13:2, 3 & 22 while El’Y’hóeinai hbhg k t becomes El’Yóeinai hbhg k t in 1 Chronicles 4:36. Yáhu Uvh I vh 30. When the Name appears at the end of a proper name it is pointed Yáhu Uvh as in MíkhaYáhu Uvh fh n (Michaiah) in 2 Chronicles 17:7, and EliYáhu UvH k t (Elijah) in I Kings 17. “Michaiah” means, “Who Is Like vuvh?” while Elijah means, “vuvh Is My Elohim.” This pronunciation also gets shortened. Thus EliYáhu UvH k t appears in Malachi 3:23 as EliYáh vH k t and MíkhaYáhu Uvh fh n becomes MikhaYáh vh fh n in Nehemiah 12:35. Y’hu Uvh 31. There are several examples of an exception to how the Name looks at the end of proper names, but only in one name. In Judges 17 verses 1 & 4, I Kings 22:8 ff, 2 Chronicles 18:7 and Jeremiah 36:11 & 13, where we would expect to find Michaiah as MíkhaYáhu Uvh fh n , we find instead MikháY’hu Uvh fh n . To my knowledge, this is the only name in which the Name is ever pointed like this. Ecclesiastes 11:3 and Sham Y’hú U vh o J 32. We see three evidently related, but distinct pronunciations of the Name in the Hebrew Scriptures. How do we explain this phenomenon? Perhaps we should ask another question first: Do any of these pronunciations reflect a legitimate verbal form? With this question, we reach a critical point in our study. No longer can we simply observe the Biblical data. Now we must evaluate it. The key to a proper analysis and the answer to our question is found hidden away in the little read book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes). There, in the eleventh chapter, is a verse which apparently has been overlooked in all the discussions about the Name. I came across it accidentally while reading the Hebrew text one day many years ago. One phrase all but shouted at me from the printed page. Ih
My Name Forever 11 oIe n iIpM C o t u oIr S C .g kIPho t u Uehrh . r t vk g o JD oh cgv UtkNho t d:th ,kve : tU vh o J .g v kIPH J Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds fill up with rain, they empty upon the earth; and whether the tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be. 33. "There it shall be," translates sham y’hú tU vh o J. Sham o J means “there.” The Analytical Hebrew Lexicon, which breaks up each word in the Hebrew text into its component parts, gives us some very interesting information about the word y’hú tU vh. It is a third person singular, masculine, Kal future (he will...) form of the verb Hei Vav Hei /v/u/v (to be)! ("Tree" is a masculine word in Hebrew.) A note in brackets also informs us that y’hú tU vh is apocopated (abbreviated as “ap.” or “apoc.”). “Apocopated” simply describes “the loss of one or more sounds or letters at the end of a word...” 31 Here is the entry: tU vh Kal fut. 3 per. sing. masc. [for Uvh ap. for vuvh § 24. rem. 3] . . . . . . . vuv 32 34. According to the Analytical Lexicon the word y’hú tU vh is a shortened verbal form of Yeheveh vuvh. It reflects the meaning of the Name exactly and is identical in pronunciation with how it is pronounced at the end of Michaiah's name sometimes. The note in brackets also directs us to section 24 remark 3 at the front of the lexicon where we read that y’hú tU vh is a shortened “Syriac” form of Yih’veh vu vh. The verbs vh v to be and vhj to live, which would properly have in the fut. apoc. h vh, and h jh, change these forms into h vh and h jh... A perfectly Syriac form is tUvh Ec. 11.3, for vu vh, ap. Uvh (from vu v to be). 33 35. In the first quote from the Analytical Lexicon we are told that y’hú tU vh is a shortened form of Yeheveh vuvh, while in the second we read that it is a shortened form of Yih’veh vu vh. The discrepancy arises from the fact that neither of the longer forms is found in any Hebrew literature. The longer forms are hypothetical reconstructions based on what we know of Hebrew verb patterns. Since it is the shortened form which mirrors the pronunciation of the Name in Michaiah’s name, it is the shortened forms of y’hi h vh and y’hu Uvh which next require our attention. Y’hi h vh and Y’hu Uvh 36. So, we have in the words y’hí h vh (root Hei Yud Hei /v/h/v) and y’hú U vh (root Hei Vav Hei /v/u/v) shortened forms of the imperfect. Normally this shortened form represents a nuance of meaning called the “jussive,” 34 which expresses a “command or wish” 35 and is recognized in Lamed-Hei v"k verbs 36 by the 31 Merriam-Webster: New Collegiate Dictionary (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1997), p. 53. 32 Davidson: Lexicon, p. 300. 33 Davidson: Lexicon, p. 51. 34 Gesenius: Grammar, p. 129. 35 Gesenius: Grammar, p. 131. 36 Lamed-Hei v"k verbs have a Hei v as the third letter of the root.
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